i feel like we’ve been ‘a few months away’ from ai replacing all devs and designers for like a year now
Check developer threads on Reddit, Levels or HN, for example. Even many senior engineers with years of experience have found the market to be tough.
The tough job market isn't *just* because of AI.. For example, companies know they can get away with annual layoffs now. It's not a huge surprise that developers are on the chopping block along with everyone else. They're usually the most expensive people 🤷🏻♀️
Didn't say it was the only factor but it's a really big factor. You wouldn't fire people you need. Even if they're expensive. The truth is that even things like Copilot have 10x developer productivity. This is according to my developer friends themselves.
My point was that o3 is a whole new level of AI. With Copilot (which has already 10x'ed dev productivity) you still need to really know what you're doing. o3 will likely allow anyone who has a product idea create a product. No years of tech expertise necessary.
i would agree it makes just starting to create a product more accessible but this is different than it’s ability to outright replace workers for a big tech company, for example.
workers as in devs, in the above post^ this is from the perspective i have developed working on ai and automation tools in an engineering/tech lead role day to day, fwiw. these are tools that can disrupt no doubt, but the impact they currently have is often overstated imo.
Currently, yes. As I said, Copilot helps an engineer be much more productive but you still need to have engineering skills and experience. o3 sounds like a completely different beast. We'll know more soon.
Idk, it's surprising how short-sighted some companies are. Spotify laid-off the person who made their algorithm what it is. They look at people as numbers on a spreadsheet.. (c)
Even if what you're saying is 100% true we need to move past this idea that companies and their leadership are infallible. The reality is that people don't always know what they're doing or worse - they know and simply don't care. Sad but true
Sure but that's a different conversation from the one I started. I was just talking about the impact o3 and similar products (surely to launch soon) will have.